Activity from JHarris

I mentioned NPC lying in a recent thread, I might as well mention a few examples.... In TTRPGs, this falls under the category of tavern or village rumors. Many early D&D modules offer a table of rumors that players may receive, sometimes even… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by cupcakeninja, Ryvar
MeFi comment - 21 minutes ago

I think the reaction comes because the arts are under particular attack right now, from multiple angles, but especially from generative "AI" companies seeking to destroy entire professions. From someone seeing their livelihood under that… [more]
favorited 34 times, recently by salix, naoko, brachiopod, under_petticoat_rule, thebots, ljesse, The Outsider, yqxnflld, tomcooke, mpc, Barbara Spitzer, Harvey Kilobit, adrienneleigh, joeyjoejoejr, Brainstorming Time!, Absolutely No You-Know-What, jadeflute, theora55, WalkingAround, Bella Donna, EXISTENZ IS PAUSED, Ber, Lexica, busted_crayons, Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted, Pandora Kouti, jeremias, overglow, elkevelvet, humbug, Mister Cheese, audi alteram partem, ursus_comiter, torokunai
MeFi comment - 24 minutes ago

It's a valid design decision to have NPCs lie, or not know what they're talking about. Dragon Quest XI has a preference setting that lets NPCs do just that. And it makes sense that the people in the villages might not even have a clue what's… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Ryvar, rifflesby, Pope Guilty
MeFi comment - Almost 3 hours ago

Northwoods Baseball (Previously) is quite fun. I sometimes listen to it even when I'm not trying to go to sleep. Each episode has one or two moments that are chuckle-worthy. Like, there was the one where there was a hot air balloon hovering in the… [more]
favorited 18 times, recently by yumpsuit
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Tonight at MST Club we showed three MST3K episodes with movies directed by Roger Corman, not produced by him, and all of them made in 1956. We watched SWAMP DIAMONDS, IT CONQUERED THE WORLD (with MST Club favorites Lee Van Cleef and Peter… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by ob1quixote, biogeo, GenjiandProust, The Manwich Horror, Kattullus
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

CATSTRAVAGANZA
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MeFi post - 2 days ago

On Mr. Do! (apologies for derail, but Digger is very close in some ways, although different in others): First, there are several Mr. Do! games (properly written out, it has an exclamation point, although sometimes that's annoying to type out… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by lisa g
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

No way to know, and even if he were self reporting would I believe him? But it's a thought in my head. In hearing this, about Somerton, I have to admit that I, too, sometimes am troubled by sympathy for the damned. As an example, Sam… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

Absolutely not the time, topic and place, even if there were ever a time, topic or a place for garbage LLM nonsense. In the future, I'd like to see LLM-produced content passed off as real writing carry with it the same kind of stigma as… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

Yes, moderation on Mastodon is messy and fraught, but there is a sense that it's because moderation itself is messy and fraught. If moderation seems easy, it's probably because its being done badly. The more I become familiar with and use the… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by adrienneleigh, hydropsyche
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

It upsets me that despite Elon seemingly doing everything he can to ruin Twitter (not calling it 'X'), a lot of people are still there, including many voices that should know better. Mastodon and Bluesky exist, you don't have to stay on the platform… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by Reverend John, Suedeltica, Ten Cold Hot Dogs, humbug, Two unicycles and some duct tape, chavenet
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

martin q blank: Just have faith! [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by martin q blank
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

Through Google, at least. [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by busted_crayons, GenjiandProust, Kattullus
MeFi comment - 4 days ago

Like humbug I've stuck with Mastodon and the wider Fediverse, even as the general buzz around it has died down (tech still adores it and that's what I mostly follow), but I've already spilled a whole lot of words on that subject so I'll just leave a… [more]
favorited 16 times, recently by AzraelBrown, Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks, snuffleupagus, adrienneleigh, pan, ButteryMales, ourobouros, limeonaire, clew, zompist, Surely This, ursus_comiter, Zumbador, humbug, Gygesringtone, Nelson
MeFi comment - 5 days ago

As the ringleader of MST Club and watcher of every episode of MST3K at least three times, the jokes on Roger Corman, of course, lie thick on the ground there, despite the fact that they did fewer Roger Corman movies than you'd think, Bert I… [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by snsranch, The Ardship of Cambry, GenjiandProust, dr_dank, Pallas Athena, Faint of Butt, wenestvedt, The Manwich Horror, pxe2000
MeFi comment - 6 days ago

I love that you're becoming so much of a connoisseur of the form to try to surface the videos that are less annoying, because frog knows there are some overly-cloying animal videos out there. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by amtho
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

To EmpressCallipyos, I do see that, but I feel like I keep saying, to the point of annoying repetition, that it's still important for other people to be able to look inside their machines, and it's important for them in a way that indirectly helps… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Too-Ticky, clew
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

But aren't we on the verge of true text-to-video tools being opened up to the public? OpenAI has Sora, which is supposed to generate up to a minute of video, Google has announced Imagen, and Microsoft announced VASA-1. Seems like it's a matter of… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by cybrcamper, adrienneleigh, The Manwich Horror
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

Yes, you can still do what you always could do, pay for a webstead somewhere, or else maybe make a small free site on a tilde or Neocities or some similar place. But will anyone read what you've written? How will they even find it? The biggest… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by adrienneleigh, Stoneshop, ob1quixote
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

I saw some of these and I was amused but I thought posting them to MetaFilter would lead to an argument. Yep, you were right about there being an argument. I think it's an important argument though, and that fact doesn't reflect badly on… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by adrienneleigh, vacapinta, Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted, AlSweigart
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

To think I'd find a use for all that experimenting I did with the Commodore 64's sound chip back decades ago. I can tell a triangle and sawtooth wave apart by ear! [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by chavenet
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

The raw hatred towards Apple has always been weird. It continues to be weird. And some of the comments here demonstrate why it's weird There are people who are annoyed at Steve Jobs' lionization (like me! I'm annoyed by it). But in this… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by GenjiandProust
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

If the customer wants wheat toast, we simply flip the jelly pack over
favorited 59 times, recently by skyl1n3
MeFi post - 8 days ago

CW: Scaramucci [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by mmoncur, The Baffled King, humbug, dobbs, May Kasahara, GenjiandProust, chavenet
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

And you know what else, there's a fuck of a lot more "old pensioners" than there are "car mechanics", both literally and figuratively. This is a derail, but.... Yes, but the old pensioners can get the car mechanics to… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by Barbara Spitzer, clew, philip-random, Don Pepino, ursus_comiter, grumpybear69
MeFi comment - 9 days ago

It's okay windowpaene, it's not the first time I failed to see sarcasm yay [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by wenestvedt, Ryvar, Windopaene
MeFi comment - 9 days ago

Ah, ArtW's link just got posted as a FPP. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Artw, GenjiandProust
MeFi comment - 9 days ago

Special Event: Mining Accident Theater: WAR OF THE ROBOTS
favorited 3 times, recently by mmoncur, seasparrow, audi alteram partem
FanFare post - 10 days ago

Giving to food banks effectively
favorited 48 times, recently by Fish, fish, are you doing your duty?
MeFi post - 10 days ago

That is interesting, because taking Pascal in college was the last time I feel like I really enjoyed programming. Not saying it's for everyone, or for you. I just kind of like Pascal. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by snuffleupagus
MeFi comment - 11 days ago

"Sounds like Kermit the Frog during a rectal exam."
favorited 11 times, recently by aloha, kmartino, mirileh, ob1quixote, miles per flower, biogeo, conscious matter, Kattullus, treepour, ourobouros, GenjiandProust
MeFi post - 11 days ago

I haven't seen this one yet, but Lower Decks has become one of my favorite shows. They love Star Trek so much. [more]
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FanFare comment - 13 days ago

"Survivor's Log, Day 1. No one knows what made them angry, what set them off. Instantly, every vehicle on the planet turned itself into a flesh-smashing missile. They shouldn't have nearly enough kinetic energy in their gas tanks for this, a… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by genpfault, notyou, Two unicycles and some duct tape
MeFi comment - 13 days ago

Amazing how Lefties have developed such a taste for war. I'm the fourth fifth person chiming in on this clueless statement now. But wow. You don't even have your political axis right. Left/right is not inherently pro/anti war… [more]
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MeFi comment - 14 days ago

Well queensissy you're in for a treat, because tomosteen has a whole Youtube channel of wonderful videos like that one. I found out about them through clavdivs's recent FPP! [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by dr_dank, queensissy
FanFare comment - 2 weeks ago

I think a lot of the disdain BASIC has gotten over time is undeserved, the result of a cadre of Respected Developers trying to maintain their profession as a kind of mysterious priesthood. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with BASIC. Sure,… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by mabelstreet, TrishaU, vacapinta, doctornemo, Mister Cheese, Harvey Kilobit
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

When people talk about BASIC lacking power, that's more the implementation than anything else. BASIC can be a compiled language just like anything else is. Its time may be past, but Python has picked up its torch admirably. Microsoft's first… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by TrishaU
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

What did the Muppets ever do to justify their sainted name being used to describe right-wing shills and trolls? [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

There are many guffaws spurred by the effects in this, but the one that got me the most, over and over again, was how lousy and half-assed the lighting of the miniatures is. We've seen this movie at MST Club, and the part I found funniest… [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 weeks ago

Yeah, subscriptions is a better word. My using "donations" was largely misspeaking (mistyping). An error. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by nofundy, zamboni
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Looking forward to future posts wherein MeFites will post workaround links to his Patreon videos and avoid paying him! That's how it works around here, isn't it? I don't think so, no. I'm not one to speak for everyone, but I think you've… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by nofundy, AzraelBrown, May Kasahara, Abehammerb Lincoln, hydrobatidae, biogeo
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

If this guy had spent half the effort he put into robberies and living in secret rooms into working a job and renting an apartment, he could have had the regular life he seemed to crave. Maybe? I myself have never had what I'd call a real… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Is today Kermit day? I'm fine with it being Kermit day! [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by mmoncur, queensissy, GenjiandProust, chavenet
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

MST Club is out weekly thing we do where we watch riffing, related movies and other things. I happens every Thursday at 7 PM US Eastern time, with the main event happening at 9 PM, at https://cytu.be/r/metafilter_mst3kclub. [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 weeks ago

Special Event: The Mads: She Shoulda Said 'No'!
favorited 1 time, recently by queensissy
FanFare post - 2 weeks ago

I feel like we should make a list of all of these indie media projects that are funded through donations. I can name off the top of my head this one, of course, and: 404 Media, Defector, Aftermath and Second Wind. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Interest or not, you can still do it! Sometimes posting to Fanfare helps create the interest. Even if it doesn't, Fanfare posts don't close, so people might post their comments years later. [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 weeks ago

Dungeon, an RPG system for Commodore 64
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Projects post - 2 weeks ago

The vacuum it leaves is going to be hard to fill. Time until someone mentions Kagi: three... two... one... wait, damn, I was the one who mentioned it! I think what might possibly help is self-hosted search? People have been doing… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

emptythought, the one bright point about all of this is that, for a long while, Google's benevolent stewardship made it seem like it might be possible to have a corporation that did mostly good things. Google made a strong case that techno-utopianism… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

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